Daily Mail

I FELT SHE WAS THERE FOR ME AT MY WEDDING, WILLIAM REVEALS

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PRINCE William felt his mother’s presence at his marriage to Kate Middleton, he revealed in the documentar­y.

Diana remains in his thoughts on a daily basis and provides strength and inspiratio­n when he needs her, he said.

Of his wedding, he said: ‘I did really feel that she was there … there were times I looked to someone or something for strength – and I very much felt she was there for me.’

The Duke of Cambridge told ITV: ‘There are not many days that go by that I don’t think of her. Sometimes sad, sometimes very positively.’ William said he felt ‘lucky’ to have had 15 years to get to know his mother before her death and said he made a conscious effort to speak to his own children about ‘Granny Diana’. ‘There were two grandmothe­rs in their lives so it’s important that they know who she was,’ he said.

‘She’d be an absolute nightmare grandmothe­r, absolute nightmare. She’d love the children to bits, but she’d come in probably at bath time, cause an amazing scene with bubbles absolutely everywhere and bath water all over the place, then just leave!’

He said his overwhelmi­ng memory of her was a ‘feeling of having her around and being loved as a family or as a son’. ‘We felt incredibly loved, Harry and I. I’m very grateful that love still feels there, even 20 years on.’

Harry added: ‘To myself and William she was just the best mother ever … It was a love that, even if she was on the other side of a room, you could feel.’

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